In R&D, three laboratories are covering a wide range of generic technologies in Micro- & Photonelectronics (LAMI), Audio-Visual Signal Processing (AVSP) and Multidimensional signal processing and communication (IRIS), which cannot be dealt with separately when the real world applications of the Information Society are envisaged. The collaboration between the three participating research groups leads to integrated transdisciplinary R&D, e.g. in speech/audio and image/video processing in the context of multimedia research, in the exploitation of new opto-electronic devices for applications of ambient intelligence, and in joint channel-source coding.